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folio

[foh-lee-oh] / ˈfoʊ liˌoʊ /


NOUN
leaf
Synonyms
STRONGEST
STRONG




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Each fable was printed as a separate folio; the folios are stored in a box designed by the multimedia artist Kiki Smith.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

A dog-eared punk zine flutters near a vellum-bound folio.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2025

The folio edition was compiled by actors John Heminge and Henry Condell as a tribute and memorial to the writer.

From BBC ● Apr. 24, 2023

Another chapter patiently explains, with illustrations, the process of printing a large folio.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 21, 2023

He held up the large calf-bound folio, and I saw by its gilt lettering that it was a book of anatomy by Vesalius.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein

First folios have been on exhibit everywhere from the British Museum to the New York Public Library and at least two major book projects will mark the anniversary.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 23, 2023

Also included are 11 folios of an early Quran dating back to the late eighth century, an inscribed bronze bowl and a monument dating to the first century B.C.

From Washington Times ● Feb. 22, 2023

The others artifacts are a bronze bowl, believed to be from the 3rd century, and 11 folios from an 8th-century Quran.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 21, 2023

Thick, satisfying folios bear nearly 300 gloriously oversize full-bleed vintage prints, paintings and visual miscellanea that have become part of his work.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2016

To the Athenians, these were a kind of cultural patrimony—something like the original handwritten copies and first folios of Shakespeare might be in England.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

All books for office use are either folioed or paged, i.e., either each page or each sheet gets a consecutive number in order to facilitate reference from the index.

From Practical Bookbinding by Paul Adam

Maccabees, 474 ll. folioed, N. T. 122 leaves, 'A Briefe Table' HH h iii to LLl iii.,

From Book Collecting: A Guide for Amateurs by J. Herbert (John Herbert) Slater


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